This morning we woke up to a little bit of snow. The red apples still hanging on the tree out back looked like Christmas ornaments. We made pumpkin pancakes for breakfast, and immediately afterwards the kids ran out to shovel the front walk and sweep off the car windows. Without being asked. I’ve got beef [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘life’
November 2, 2009
Why Am I in This #$*)&(% Lifeboat?
This morning in the car Anthropapa and I were having a discussion about affirmative action and the fact that there have only been 3 African American US senators since Reconstruction, and how maybe President Obama will be a positive role model to increase that number. Yes, at 7:45 am, we were discussing that. I guess [...]
October 10, 2009
Be It Ever So Humble…
…We’ve Finally Got a Home.
I’ve been feeling a bit too overwhelmed to create blog posts lately and have just been updating Facebook. Then I realized that not all of the people who read this blog are also on Facebook, so to update you:
We bought a house. It’s more or less right across the street from [...]
August 19, 2009
Pre-hiatus Update
Dear Bloggy Friends,
I must pause. Not to reflect, but to get everything else done.
We plan to close on our house on Sept. 8. Of course this has meant numerous phone calls, meetings, and appointments. We’ve got a lot of financial wrangling yet to do — buying appliances, applying for our government’s wonderful offer of $8,000, [...]
August 11, 2009
Preparing for Harvest
I know it’s still summer, but I’m already thinking about autumn. It’s my favorite season, not only because of birthdays and anniversaries but just for that beautiful, almost wistful feeling I get watching the days grow shorter and nature beginning to fall asleep.
Summer is a time of growth, and heat. But I also see it [...]
July 26, 2009
Trial by Water
Today was rather momentous. At one point this afternoon I realized that the entire day was like an initiation of some kind or another.
Rudolf Steiner wrote quite a bit about initiatory experiences, religious, meditative, and quotidian. The quotes I have given here are from his book, How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of [...]
April 1, 2009
I Needed That
Kid home sick. Floor unvacuumed, dishes unwashed. Client unhappy.
Something to lighten my day.
Happy April 1!
March 22, 2009
Unsettled
(You will have to bear with me here. I have lots going on and came up with this cute little structure for the post that will not let me cut anything out! So read on, all 1,400 words, if you dare. If not, I won’t blame you — aren’t blog posts supposed to be no [...]
March 15, 2009
Time Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping…
This weekend my watch battery died. At first I was really disconcerted — I’m not exactly obsessed with knowing the time, but as a mom I find it a little easier to handle our daily rhythms if I know where we are in the day.
There have been times in my life where I didn’t have [...]
March 13, 2009
Snippets of Life
Can you tell I finally charged the camera batteries?
A few weeks ago we went over to ISU for some fresh air and exercise in the quad. It was one of those bright blue winter days.
These trees are perfect for little kids to climb. They’d been off-limits for a few months while a new patio area [...]
